P. J. Parker

P. J. Parker is an Australian/American thriller author and the creator of Thomas Smoke — a government-sanctioned killer who protects the powerful by day and performs sanctioned "retirements" by night. Trained as an architect (BSc Architecture), Parker has lived and traveled extensively around the world, and his six novels put that eye for place to work: the Thomas Smoke series (Smoke, Distraction) runs from Manhattan's penthouses and subterranean passages to a winter chase in the Swiss Alps; the gothic Companion Series (Fire on the Water, Origin of the Vampyre) re-enters the worlds of Frankenstein and The Vampyre in Victorian England; Roxelana & Suleyman sweeps through Ottoman Istanbul; and America Túwaqachi spans 18,000 years of American history. Parker lives and writes in the USA.